depredate
English
Etymology
Late Latin depraedari, depraedat-: Latin de- + praedari (“to plunder”).
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- IPA(key): /ˈdɛpɹədeɪt/
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Verb
depredate (third-person singular simple present depredates, present participle depredating, simple past and past participle depredated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To ransack or plunder; to prey upon.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- It makes the substance of the body […] less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits.
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